I have a radio controlled clock in the house that we use as the most accurate one, and we adjust the others to that ones time. The signal used to come from the Post Office Radio station at Rugby, these days the MSF signal is transmitted from Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria by Babcock (formerly VT Communications), under contract to the National Physical Laboratory.

The signal is at 60khz which is where I think that Gordon got confused, as that frequency only applies to radio controlled clocks. The signal can be received throughout much of northern and western Europe.

I actually kind of thought a minute was based on the rhythm of an atom.

Well Gordon, That just shows how young you are. Before that it was a balance wheel in a time piece:) Backed up by daily observatory time.

The origin of modern time is far more ancient than that, the Ancient Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system in the third millennium BC, which We use for time keeping to this very day...
http://blog.klockit.com/2014/10/15/the-ancient-babylonian-origins-of-modern-time/

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I have a radio controlled clock in the house that we use as the most accurate one, and we adjust the others to that ones time. The signal used to come from the Post Office Radio station at Rugby, these days the MSF signal is transmitted from Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria by Babcock (formerly VT Communications), under contract to the National Physical Laboratory.

The signal is at 60khz which is where I think that Gordon got confused, as that frequency only applies to radio controlled clocks. The signal can be received throughout much of northern and western Europe.

I actually kind of thought a minute was based on the rhythm of an atom.

Well Gordon, That just shows how young you are. Before that it was a balance wheel in a time piece:) Backed up by daily observitory time.

lol, I guess I am an "atomic age" baby. :~)

Well Im am also, I was born in 52. The atomic age,. But life was still simple. My firts calculator was in 75. A Texas Instrument Was 4 functions. Cost me $40.00 Dollars in 75 dollars.

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I have a radio controlled clock in the house that we use as the most accurate one, and we adjust the others to that ones time. The signal used to come from the Post Office Radio station at Rugby, these days the MSF signal is transmitted from Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria by Babcock (formerly VT Communications), under contract to the National Physical Laboratory.

The signal is at 60khz which is where I think that Gordon got confused, as that frequency only applies to radio controlled clocks. The signal can be received throughout much of northern and western Europe.

I actually kind of thought a minute was based on the rhythm of an atom.

Well Gordon, That just shows how young you are. Before that it was a balance wheel in a time piece:) Backed up by daily observitory time.

lol, I guess I am an "atomic age" baby. :~)

Well Im am also, I was born in 52. The atomic age,. But life was still simple. My firts calculator was in 75. A Texas Instrument Was 4 functions. Cost me $40.00 Dollars in 75 dollars.

I've still got my dad's Casio. I think it's about a 75 model, too. Has a red LED display, and is rechargeable.

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When I was a kid, nearly every 3rd or 4th house back then still had a sundial in either the front or back yard.

Cheers.

When I was a kid, nearly every 3rd or 4th house back then still had a sundial in either the front or back yard.

Cheers.

Gazing balls and bathtub Mary's are what you tend to see in the countryside around here.

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My first calculator was my fingers. It was quite good cos I could use my sister's fingers too... most of the time :)

I slide rule and I still have it.

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My first calculator was my fingers. It was quite good cos I could use my sister's fingers too... most of the time :)

LOL! Same here:)) I also taught Lisa to count like that, her math teacher says it's all wrong (?) She has 92/100 on her math exam *proud mother modus*

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My first calculator was my fingers. It was quite good cos I could use my sister's fingers too... most of the time :)

LOL! Same here:)) I also taught Lisa to count like that, her math teacher says it's all wrong (?) She has 92/100 on her math exam *proud mother modus*

Well done Lisa!!! :) She probably followed her teachers advice for the other 8 marks :))))))))))

My first calculator was my fingers. It was quite good cos I could use my sister's fingers too... most of the time :)

LOL! Same here:)) I also taught Lisa to count like that, her math teacher says it's all wrong (?) She has 92/100 on her math exam *proud mother modus*

Well done Lisa!!! :) She probably followed her teachers advice for the other 8 marks :))))))))))

I learned her the basssics:))))

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My first calculator was my fingers. It was quite good cos I could use my sister's fingers too... most of the time :)

Here is more high tech fingers.

her math teacher says it's all wrong (?)

And yet the average maths teacher today couldn't do mental arithmetic if they tried!! When have they EVER got it right!

New Mathematics or New Math was a brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools, and to a lesser extent in European countries, during the 1960s. The name is commonly given to a set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population so that the perceived intellectual threat of Soviet engineers, reputedly highly skilled mathematicians, could be met.

Right! Yoko also counts on her fingers, every kid does it.

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her math teacher says it's all wrong (?)

And yet the average maths teacher today couldn't do mental arithmetic if they tried!! When have they EVER got it right!

New Mathematics or New Math was a brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools, and to a lesser extent in European countries, during the 1960s. The name is commonly given to a set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population so that the perceived intellectual threat of Soviet engineers, reputedly highly skilled mathematicians, could be met.

Right! Yoko also counts on her fingers, every kid does it.

I usually don't, I can add and subtract and do some simple multiplying in My head, division can give Me headaches though...

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her math teacher says it's all wrong (?)

And yet the average maths teacher today couldn't do mental arithmetic if they tried!! When have they EVER got it right!

New Mathematics or New Math was a brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools, and to a lesser extent in European countries, during the 1960s. The name is commonly given to a set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population so that the perceived intellectual threat of Soviet engineers, reputedly highly skilled mathematicians, could be met.

Right! Yoko also counts on her fingers, every kid does it.

I usually don't, I can add and subtract and do some simple multiplying in My head, division can give Me headaches though...

I can quite imagine you can Vic, but you're special... (no you're not a freak, I object!)

[edit] I was talking to myself again...

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her math teacher says it's all wrong (?)

And yet the average maths teacher today couldn't do mental arithmetic if they tried!! When have they EVER got it right!

New Mathematics or New Math was a brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools, and to a lesser extent in European countries, during the 1960s. The name is commonly given to a set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population so that the perceived intellectual threat of Soviet engineers, reputedly highly skilled mathematicians, could be met.

Right! Yoko also counts on her fingers, every kid does it.

I usually don't, I can add and subtract and do some simple multiplying in My head, division can give Me headaches though...

I can quite imagine you can Vic, but you're special... (no you're not a freak, I object!)

[edit] I was talking to myself again...

I also learned how to cook, sew(by hand), ride a horse, do archery(red zone with no practice) and use a rifle, just by watching, I'm ambidextrous too, with the rifle I eventually approached expert level as a sharpshooter in the Army, but then I had plenty of practice and 1 little tip, which I won't give out, since most don't need to know it. Daniel Boone I'm not, but I wasn't too bad for a city kid.

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I usually do maths in my head too, but sometimes I use a pen or pencil on a bit of metal, paper or timber to work out harder or more critical stuff out on.

I did have a scientific calculator way back in the early 70's while I was still at school (I can't remember though if is was a National or Sharp job), but I only used it so I didn't have to carry around 3 different trigonometric table books (I don't think that was the name used back then though for that type of maths) for sine, cosine, and tangent work.

I'm sorry Chris if we're getting to far off topic. ;-)

Cheers.

I have always wondered why if I spread butter on a sandwich and if it's falling on to the floor...
Yes butter side down.

Because you have butter fingers?

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Because you have butter fingers?

Actually there is a scientific explaintion to this.
However if you spread butter on both sides on the sandwich?

Ok here is a new one. Ever wonder why when you are late for work, Every traffic light you come to is red? But when going to the dentist to have a root canal Its green all the way:)

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